Climate Change Data

CES Energy Solutions Corp.

Climate Impact & Sustainability Data (2021, 2022, 2023)

Reporting Period: 2021

Environmental Metrics

Governance Achievements

  • Reinstatement of quarterly dividend on August 12, 2021

Climate Goals & Targets

Environmental Challenges

  • Global supply chain constraints
  • Labor shortages
  • COVID-19 pandemic impacts
  • Fluctuations in oil and gas prices
  • Uncertainty in government policies and regulations
  • Potential changes to US domestic and foreign policy
  • Credit and equity financing availability
  • Risks associated with US expansion
  • Raw material availability and pricing
  • Disruptions to transportation networks
Mitigation Strategies
  • Strategic investments in inventory
  • Targeted pricing increases
  • Working capital focus
  • Attracting and retaining qualified personnel
  • Competitive compensation
  • Remote work tools and technologies
  • Safe working environment
  • Internal and external training programs
  • Insurance policies
  • Credit checks on customers
  • Managing exposure to individual customers
  • Reviewing credit procedures
  • Insuring trade credit risks
  • Proactive inventory procurement practices
  • Maintaining prudent cost structure

Supply Chain Management

Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities

Physical Risks
  • Floods, tornadoes, hurricanes
Transition Risks
  • Regulatory changes, market shifts
  • Changes to US trade and climate policies

Reporting Period: 2022

Environmental Metrics

Climate Goals & Targets

Environmental Challenges

  • Labor and supply chain constraints
  • Recession risk, rising interest rates and geopolitical instability
  • Cost inflation in certain facets of the value chain
  • Supply chain disruptions due to global pandemic and geopolitical events
Mitigation Strategies
  • Prudent G&A levels and targeted pricing increases
  • Strategic procurement process and pricing increases
  • Proactive management of debt duration and flexibility
  • Attracting well trained and experienced professionals; offering competitive compensation; providing tools and technologies to enable employees to work remotely; ensuring a safe working environment; offering internal and external training programs; maintaining insurance policies

Supply Chain Management

Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities

Physical Risks
  • Floods, tornadoes, hurricanes
Transition Risks
  • Regulatory changes, market shifts
  • Government policies including environmental regulations

Reporting Standards

Frameworks Used: IFRS

Reporting Period: 2023

Environmental Metrics

Climate Goals & Targets

Environmental Challenges

  • Fluctuations in the level and complexity of oil and gas exploration and development activity carried on by its clients.
  • Seasonal drilling activity in Canada.
  • Fluctuations in oil, natural gas, and natural gas liquids commodity prices.
  • Pipeline takeaway capacity.
  • Access to capital markets.
  • Government policies (royalty, environmental, and industry regulations).
  • Oil and natural gas demand fluctuations (impacted by global political, military, economic, and social factors).
  • Labor and supply chain constraints.
  • Crude oil pricing differentials versus world benchmarks.
  • Uncertainty around the ability for WCSB producers to reach markets.
  • Volatility in financial markets impacting credit and equity financing.
  • Worldwide political and economic risks (conflict in Ukraine and the Middle East, tensions between China and the United States).
  • Retreat in energy capital markets due to fluctuating commodity prices and ESG concerns.
  • Reliance on Senior Facility to fund working capital and growth initiatives.
  • Demand for skilled employees and limited supply of top quality, experienced talent.
  • Potential disruptions to employees' ability to perform their duties due to unforeseen events.
  • Inadequate insurance coverage or inability to maintain adequate insurance in the future.
  • Concentration of credit risk in trade accounts receivable.
  • Significant US presence exposing the Company to currency risk, regulatory risks, and increased regulatory requirements.
  • Availability and supply of raw materials, supply chain issues and disruptions.
  • Potential disruptions to transportation networks, impacts from pandemics, and shortages of transportation infrastructure.
Mitigation Strategies
  • Volatility in activity at the drill-bit, fracturing and completion stages is somewhat muted by the long-term and less variable revenue generated at the pump-jack and wellhead during the production stage and in the mid-stream, pipeline and transportation phases.
  • Growing facets of its business to increase the predictability of earnings.
  • Attracting well-trained and experienced professionals, offering competitive compensation, providing tools and technologies for remote work, ensuring a safe working environment, and offering internal and external training programs.
  • Maintaining insurance policies with respect to its operations.
  • Performing credit checks, managing exposure to individual customers, reviewing credit procedures, reviewing and actively following up on older accounts, and insuring trade credit risks.
  • Significant US presence providing upside potential and reducing certain risks through diversification of operations.
  • Evaluating potential changes to customer activity levels and the potential impacts to our business.
  • Monitoring interest rate trends and forecasted economic conditions.
  • Monitoring exchange rate trends and forecasted economic conditions and using financial derivatives.
  • Managing equity price risk through financial derivatives.

Supply Chain Management

Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities

Physical Risks
  • Floods, tornadoes, and hurricanes
Transition Risks
  • Changes in government regulations restricting the use of hydraulic fracturing
  • Impact of climate change policies

Reporting Standards

Frameworks Used: IFRS